Examples of Health coverage on the web
See examples of live-blogging, multimedia and community involvement related to health coverage on the web.
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News videos on the Web
Most news videos I find on the Website of newspaper websites or television news sites remind me of the early days of Web journalism: people took copy from the print version and shoveled it online.
Read more →Caption writing for Web photo slideshows
Writing captions for photographs displayed on the Web has many similarities to writing captions for photographs displayed in a newspaper–except we can add a lot more information.
Read more →Writing SEO News Headlines
Traditional newspaper headline can be brilliant: literary, pithy and clever. Headline writers and editors love the creative play on words! Unfortunely, search engines don’t get the humor and could care less about the style. But why give a damn anyways about search engines??
Read more →Web audio examples
Audio for the Web does not mean taking a radio piece, uploading it to the Web and sticking a podcast label besides it. Here are some examples of how to use audio on the Web:
NYT: Lasorda Reflects on Dodgertown
Lives in Focus: Vietnam veteran’s Posttraumatic Stress Disorder rips family apart
MSNBC: Part 3: Venturing ‘outside the wire’ [...]
Royalty free music for news pieces
I often find that adding a little music to my news videos or audio pieces makes the pieces stronger. The music helps set a tone and create an appropriate mood.
Before Kant Desai began producing most of the music for Lives in Focus, I relied mostly on Incompetech.com for royalty free music. I highly recommend the [...]
Using still and moving images in multimedia
I attended a talk in NYC put together by the American Society of Picture Professionals titled “Bridging the gap between still and moving images.” It was a presentation by the husband and wife team of Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur in which they detailed their evolution from photographer and writer respectively to collaborative multimedia storytellers.
Here [...]
Read more →Live-blogging tips for journalists
Here are tips for journalists on Live-Blogging hearings, trials, community board meetings, press conferences, panels and conferences (hence forth called “events”). Not all the elements listed below are required. Remember there is no orthodoxy on how you live-blog:
Be prepared before the speakers/panelists even begin speaking:
1. Have panelists’ names and titles typed out and ready to [...]
Tips on writing for blogs
Many bloggers developed reputations by aggregating and linking to topical content. What these bloggers scoured for across the Web and then chose to link to was the editorial judgment that others valued. Two great examples of this are Romenesko and Instapundit.com.
Here is a framework, however, for a blog writing style that works if you are [...]
Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted Wordpress blog
Posting embedded audio to a self-hosted Wordpress blog is a little more complicated and requires installing a plugin.
If you are up to it, visit this link for the plugin.
Installation instructions are here.
The code you need to insert is found here.
The post would also look like this:
[audio:http://digitalstoragespace.com/08/sandeepjunnarkar/audio/audio.mp3]
Thanks Drew!
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